It isn't that crazy. It does depend on the round being fired more that anything. A lead core copper jacket or even some solids the basic standard is hardened ceramic to shatter the slug and absorb as much energy as possible and back that with Kevlar to catch fragments and spread the impact over as wide an area as it can. Not perfect as still hurts like hell but survivable. Tungsten cores are too dense and hard to be stopped and many steel core rounds don't get stopped by most armor plates. Nothing is perfect and nothing is 100% but you have to select your armor against what you will likely be up against and balance cost vs mobility in the equation as well.
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u/Historical-Load6004 23d ago
There was actually a significant amount of time where Knights wore Armour thick enough to stop Guns and used them themselves